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Group work
offered students
new methods for
problem solving
and help for
difficult
assignments. It Bananas
also taught
students
teamwork. Here,
se niors And rea Solving
Hinckley and
Josh O'Donnell
benefit by
working together. Problem
photo by Tedi Lund 's
- munched
Jonathan
Topics I class
Ulanday
these ye llow
fru its wh ile
problem-
To alleviate
boredom in math ,
juniors Emi ly
some unusual
Balcetis and } solving in
units:
Carlee Rastede bananas per
draw a diagram mile. photo by
illustrating that Michelle Lee
the "class is
approaching
confusion ." In a
class which had
been in math As the chilly air filled
together since
their freshmen the room, the smell of ba-
year, inside jokes
such as these
provided laughter nanas permeated the atmo-
in the midst of
learning. photo sphere. It was the second day
by Michelle Lee
of Tedi Lund's Topics I class,
and to curb their fifth hour
hunger pangs, she had bought
bunches of bananas to accom-
pany their first assignment.
The students had to
solve and write a paper over

methods used to find the
number of bananas per mile
eaten by a hungry camel.
Many methods, ranging from

equations to diagrams, were
Informing her
Al gebra 3-4 used to find the answer.
class on
solving This unique problem
matrices is
freshman Kim preceded many more interest-
Buske. Having
students work ing paper topics and real-world
problems on
the board
helped concepts introduced in the
classmates , as
well as the class.
leader, to
understand.
photo by
Michelle Lee

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